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Irish monumental inscriptions go online

Brian Cantwell’s Memorials of the Dead has now been made available online with over 60,000 searchable names.

Between c.1970 and 1990, Brian J. Cantwell transcribed and published 11 volumes of graveyard transcriptions covering mainly counties on Ireland’s south-east coast: Wicklow, Wexford and the south of County Dublin.

Cantwell’s original typewritten records have all been scanned and are available now on Irish Origins as digitised images. All the names in the transcriptions have been indexed – over 60,000 people are mentioned, covering all visible and legible memorials in graveyards that had a date of 1880 or before, and all surviving interior church memorials.